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SITRIA RADJAK
INDRI RAHAYU
ISMAIL MALIKI
Text 1
NationSpace travel should be stopped for many
reasons. Firstly, it is totally unsafe as proven by
the Colombia Space Shuttle disaster. Thousand
people have been killed in accidents. Secondly, it
costs billions and billions dollars everyday just to
put fuel into rockets. Professor Smith from the
Spend Money on People Space Association agrees
that space travel is a waste of time and money.
Further, space travel is altering the worlds
weather pattern as evidenced by the record of
high temperatures this summer in Cobar.
Everyone knows that if God wanted us to fly in
space we should have been born with space suits.
Stop space before it destroys the earth.
Text 2
Students cheating is one of the biggest problems faced by teachers
nowadays.
Despite the fact that teachers advise their students not to do dishonest
acts during tests, some students still do cheating. There are many kinds
of cheating that students do during the test or examination, such as
looking other students work, put some notes under their clothes, write
notes or formulas on their desks make hand signals or go to rest rooms
to get the answers from their friends.
In my view, students who do cheating are committing a crime. It is a sort
of taking something illegally. This crime causes negative results to the
students. Students who always cheat deteriorate their mental capacity.
Cheating acts also create dependence. They weaken their self
confidence. Instead of preparing for the coming test, they are busy to
organize notes on a piece of paper. If this awful habit continues, the
students will lose their opportunity to develop their intellectual and
mind.
Therefore, school should consider cheating as a very serious problem.
School board and administration should go hand to overcome this
matter. Honesty must be put in schools vision. Harsh punishment must
be applied to students who commit this crime.
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Text 3
Old Enough?
When a person old enough to be responsible for a crime? This question needs
to be investigated because the current law is not good enough. The law at
present protects children aged between ten years and four years from being
punished for committing crimes. It is believed that children under fourteen
years are too young to realize the seriousness of their crimes. Mr. Stephen
Scarlett, head of the NSW Childrens Court, describes how clever young
offenders use this defense, saying that they are too young to understand that
they have broken the law. Mr. Scarlett, an expert on this subject, states that
the age should be dropped from fourteen to twelve years. I agree with this.
Teenagers these days are far more sophisticated than those in the past. The
law should recognize this. In a recent survey some people suggested that the
age for being responsible for a crime should be dropped to eight years old.
This, I feel, is too young. Fourteen, however, is too old. Is there anyone who
believes that a fourteen-year-old does not know that it is against the law to
steal or vandalize property? By the age of twelve, children are aware of
what is legal and what is not.
Public pressure creates change. It is now up to the public to put pressure on
the government to change the age at which a person may be held responsible
for a crime from fourteen years to twelve years. Out of daSte laws have no
place in a modern society, especially one that needs people to be responsible
for their actions.
Text 4
Dear Editor,
We are writing to complain about ads on TV. There are so many ads,
Text 5
Nowadays, many people have realized that agriculture is much more